I write about ASP.NET Core, AWS, APIs, testing, infrastructure, and developer tooling, grounded in problems I encounter while building real systems.
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A unit test should show what makes its scenario special. AutoFixture can provide a valid context by default so the Arrange phase only needs to describe the difference.
Keep Refit clients focused by responsibility while exposing one convenient dependency to the rest of the application.
A small publishing automation started with Jekyll’s stateless builds and somehow ended with a generic event routing runtime.
Paying for OSS is not a betrayal of its ideals. The harder problem is funding future maintenance without rewriting the promise attached to what was already given away.
Build, test, version, package, and securely publish a .NET library to NuGet.org using GitHub Actions, MinVer, workflow artifacts, and trusted publishing.
Add strongly typed defaults to the .NET configuration pipeline while keeping the normal precedence and override behavior of other configuration providers.
Source generation can register injectable Minimal API endpoint classes and map their routes without runtime scanning or manual composition.
Switching to Native AOT shouldn’t change how you write your business logic. It should change how the Lambda is hosted, built and serialized around it.
Lambda functions created with Kralizek.Lambda.Templates can expose invocation, record and source-specific telemetry before application code adds a single span. Here is how that telemetry fits into OpenTelemetry locally with Aspire and wh...